Obsessive Quote by Nicholson Baker Download Open image “I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.” — Nicholson Baker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Obsessive Thinking
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I don't understand why 'obsessive' has a negative connotation, I'm an obsessive and I like it. I get an idea and I stick to… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
You can become obsessive, but you enjoy it - that's what you like doing. It is just how I am. I don't try my… — Owen Farrell Copy Share Image
I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't. — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Once I get on something, once I have something that I'm working on, then I become very obsessive. In a good way. I mean,...… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that. — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes through that… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy who's written… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Why are things beautiful? I don´t know. That´s a good question. Isn´t it pleasing when you ask a question of a person, a teacher,… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“The neurons that do expire are the ones that made imitation possible. When you are capable of skillful imitation, the sweep of choices before… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
What's somewhat puzzling is that Churchill himself knew what the reaction would be to any sort of aerial attack on cities, because in 1938… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of make-believe. If… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They tend to… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized! — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
I am an obsessive garage cleaner - my wife and the neighbors make fun of me. I remember that my father was the same… — Chris O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to… — Tim Howard Copy Share Image
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
